Chapter 497 - HE WAS HURTING HIMSELF

Hope was struggling to understand Kace's pain, but she would continue to be reminded by the action that he had done. It was terrible beyond words.

And in the end, it was very hard for hope to sympathize with him. Hope was shocked by this revelation and didn't know how to give a proper response or reaction.

"Hope, I don't tell you all of this, to make you feel how you feel right now toward him." Lana softened her voice. "He regrets all of that and this regret has been tormenting him, it almost kills him."

Hope's mind was disarray. She knew that Kace could be cruel, but she would have never imagined the severity of his cruelty.

"It had been centuries and he was just a young Lycan with hot blood who wanted to prove himself as the youngest child in the royal family such as Donovan. I think it was like a burden for him too." Lana glanced at the door once again and added. "The thing that I want to emphasize it to you is; if you don't help him now, he will suffer from greater harm that caused by himself."

Hope bit down her lips, contemplating on her own feeling

"It is unheard for a shape shifter to fight against his own beast to the point that they hurt themselves." Despite all the things that happened between Kace and herself, also her complicated feelings, Lana was still worried about Kace, knowing the harm that would befall upon him if this condition remained for long time, not to mention Kace was suffering from another injuries as well.

"How do you know all of this?" Hope asked after a few moment of silence. She felt her stomach churned uncomfortably. She disliked this fact about Kace, it shattered everything that she had seen from him.

But, if this was reality and Kace was not like the person she imagined, why should she be angry? Wouldn't she be angrier if she was lied to and didn't know the truth?

"I have spent seventeen years to do everything that Serefina told me to do, naturally I know two or three important information like this." Lana felt uncomfortable as she fidgeted. "Hope, don't let this information clouded your judgment about him. After all, centuries had passed and he couldn't undo what he had done."

Hope bit her lips and stared at the soft sheet beneath her feet as she hugged Lana's pillow that smell like her.

"When you were doing something extraordinary out there, I was just learning to walk and made some trouble." Hope mumbled to herself. "I am jealous of you…" she said this in low voice, ashamed to herself.

After all, Hope was only seventeen, she was a teenager who sometimes felt insecure upon what she had done or what she didn't do enough.

And Hope felt, compared to Lana, she had done nothing and this feeling made her jealous, yet when she was jealous of her, she didn't feel better either.

There was a bitter smile on Lana's lips when she heard this. "You don't know how much I envy you, Hope." And she meant these words.

When Hope was about to talk about something, the door was being pushed open and Kace stood there with puzzled expression.

"I thought you were in room." Kace spoke softly.

As if Lana had known Kace was looking for Hope because she had been glancing over to the door often, she stood up. "I will leave you here, there is something I want to talk to Serefina."

When Lana walked past Kace, they were exchanging a glance briefly and Hope missed to see this.

"What happened?" Kace walked over and sat down on the spot where Lana was sitting a moment ago. "You look not well." He stretched out his hand to check Raine's forehead, but she spoke before he could touch her.

"Why didn't you tell me you were hurt?" Hope rested her chin on the pillow that she was hugging, peered at Kace through her long lashes.

His shock expression didn't go unnoticed by Hope as she pressed her lips into a thin line. She was confused with her own feeling, a while ago, she felt horrible for what Kace and his brother had done toward those poor shape shifters' mates.

However, when she saw Kace right before her eyes, seeing the man that she had known for her entire life, her body and heart remembered how well he had treated her and how happy she was when she was just near him.

That horrible feeling vanished into a thin air… Just like what Lana had told her earlier, the only thing that concerned Hope now was Kace's condition.

"You are hurt and you don't tell me anything about it." Hope could hear her own voice that slightly hoarse. She was not going to cry, right? What should she cry about?

"Who told you about this?" Though Kace asked this, but he already knew who the person who had told her.

Hope didn't answer him. She kept her lips shut as she stared at Kace with gloomy expression.

Kace sighed deeply upon seeing his little mate like this. "Come here." He opened his arms, wanted to feel her body near him.

Although Hope still didn't say anything, but she complied and snuggled into his warm embrace, resting her head on his shoulder as Kace did the same too, relishing her unique scent that could subsided the turmoil in him.

"You won't want to see this." Kace whispered and felt Hope shook her head. "This is nothing, I will take care of it."

"I want to see it." Hope was stubborn and she wanted to see it no matter what Kace told her.

Knowing this, Kace sighed and released her body. "You don't have to worry about this."

Hope didn't answer that, but the way she stared at Kace, let the lycan knew she wouldn't change her mind.

With a deep sighed, Kace complied…

And the sight on his back, brought tears to her eyes.